Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker gave Elton John advice on new baby

Sir Elton John and David ­Furnish turned to Sarah Jessica Parker for advice on having a child through a surrogate mother before going ahead with the idea.

The Sex And The City star and her actor husband Matthew Broderick have 18-month-old twins Marion and Tabitha, who were also carried in another woman’s womb.

The pair gave advice to Sir Elton, 63, and Furnish, 48 – whose son Zachary ­Jackson Levon Furnish-John was born on Christmas Day – on the best way to deal with the process, from the joy of the birth to the pitfalls caused by their celebrity status.

Offering insight: Sarah Jessica Parker helped Elton John with the process of having children through a surrogate mother before the birth of the singer's son

A friend said: ‘Sir Elton and David had become extremely interested in surrogacy by the time they spoke to Sarah and Matthew.

‘Even so, they were able to give them an insight into how they coped with a high-profile surrogacy, both the ups and the downs.’

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So far, Sir Elton has managed to keep secret the identities of both the surrogate mother and the separate egg donor.

New parents: Sir Elton John and David Furnish welcomed baby boy Zachary into their family on December 25

Proud parents: Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker had their twins through a surrogate after years of struggling to conceive

It is believed Miss Parker, 45, and Broderick, 48, had also hoped to maintain the anonymity of their surrogate. However, a U.S. supermarket tabloid revealed her to be Michelle Ross, a tattooed bisexual rock music fan, before the twins were even born.

The babies were conceived in vitro using eggs Miss Parker had previously frozen and Broderick’s sperm, as the couple had failed to conceive naturally despite years of trying.

At the time, friends told how the couple – who already have an eight-year-old son James – felt the babies were ‘a blessing’.

It was revealed yesterday that baby Zachary is staying in his own £1.3million luxury apartment adjoining Sir Elton and Furnish’s LA pad, where he is being looked after by round-the-clock nannies.

On Saturday, it emerged that Sir Elton and Furnish – who sealed a civil partnership in 2005 – are already considering having another child by surrogate, perhaps in 2013.

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Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker gave Elton John advice on new baby